The essence of FIFA

FIFA,Fédération Internationale de Football Association,is the world football's governing body.Well that's not what I am upto.It's the FIFA we are all familiar with,the EA Sports FIFA.

FIFA is a series of association football video games,developed and released annually by EA Sports.It is arguably 'the most popular' video game in the world.Year in,year out,EA Sports sells record number of copies of it's marquee offering.And why not? Football is the most popular sport on the planet and fans,old and young alike,like to have a taste of it everywhere.

Speaking of my love story with FIFA,it all started way back in the mid-noughties.It was the FIFA 2005 season and I first got a taste of it at my cousin's place.There was no looking back for me since then and neither has my FIFA fever come down one little bit in all these years.As an avid football fan,embracing the game wasn't a very hard thing to do.And the game seldom disappoints.Every year the FIFA franchise release new versions of FIFA coinciding with the start of the football season.With each passing year comes slight tweaks here and there in an effort to fuse the virtual with reality.One thing about FIFA is that it is very close to the real life and as a football fanatic,it is the closest you can come to the real razzle dazzle of football sitting at home.And unlike other game franchises like GTA,NFS,etc,there is nothing surreal about the game,everything is perfectly in conjunction with reality except some occasional glitches which are nothing but programming errors.You don't see anything like a blitz at unreal speed or pedestrians getting crushed on the streets.FIFA for me is a game that may fail to catch the fancy of a layman at the first glance but for purists and footy fans,it is the epitome of unmissability.All the real life players,the tactics,the transfers,the manager mode and everything are all that come to one's mind when they think FIFA.Plus the licenses,authentication and player likenesses gives us an all round ultimate experience.

FIFA is 'the best' video game that I've ever played.Everytime I play FIFA,I feel there is still something in there unexplored.It is this beauty of FIFA that attracts me time and time again.Without FIFA,football would'nt have been what it is today.